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Fusion Center Enhancement Act of 2015
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Fusion Center Enhancement Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to revise provisions concerning the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) State, Local, and Regional Fusion Center Initiative. The bill renames it as the Department of Homeland Security Fusion Center Partnership Initiative and changes references to "participating state, local, or regional fusion centers" to references to the "National Network of Fusion Centers," which is defined as a decentralized arrangement of fusion centers intended to enhance individual state and urban area fusion centers' ability to leverage the capabilities and expertise of all fusion centers for the purpose of enhancing analysis and homeland security information sharing nationally. (A fusion center serves as a focal point within the state and local environment for the receipt, analysis, gathering, and sharing of threat-related information between the federal government and state, local, tribal, territorial, and private sector partners.) The duties of the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Initiative are revised to include: supporting the maturation and sustainment of the Network, reducing inefficiencies and maximizing the effectiveness of federal resource support to the Network, ensuring that support for the Network is included as a national priority in applicable homeland security grant guidance, ensuring that each fusion center in the Network has a privacy policy and a civil rights and civil liberties policy approved by DHS, coordinating the nationwide suspicious activity report initiative to ensure that information gathered by the Network is incorporated, ensuring that fusion centers in the Network are the primary focal points for the sharing of homeland security information, terrorism information, and weapons of mass destruction information with state and local entities, and disseminating best practices on the appropriate levels for staffing at Network fusion centers of qualified representatives from state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement and emergency services, public health disciplines, and the private sector. The Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis must ensure that fusion centers in the Network have access to homeland security information sharing systems and that DHS personnel are deployed to support fusion centers in the Network in a manner consistent with DHS's mission and existing statutory limits. The Under Secretary shall negotiate memoranda of understanding between DHS and a state or local government regarding the exchange of information between DHS and Network fusion centers. Such memoranda shall include: the categories of information to be provided by the parties to such memoranda, the contemplated uses of the exchanged information, the procedures for developing joint products, the information sharing dispute resolution processes, and any protections necessary to ensure the exchange of information accords with applicable law and policies. The Under Secretary shall: (1) coordinate with appropriate federal officials to ensure the deployment to Network fusion centers of representatives of other federal agencies with relevant expertise; and (2) report to specified congressional committees annually through 2022 on the efforts of DHS components to enhance support provided to Network fusion centers.
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2016 · second_quarter · Homeland Security
Issues relating to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including improvements to educational and data programs at the U.S. Fire Administration and National Fire Academy. H.R. 3583, the PREPARE Act, provisions to protect the status of the DHS Office of Emergency Communications, purchase medical countermeasures for first responders, and prevent the implementation of the National Preparedness Grant Program proposal to consolidate the agency's homeland security grants. H.R. 3503, the Department of Homeland Security Support to Fusion Centers Act and H.R. 3598, the Fusion Center Enhancement Act, provisions to improve information sharing with local fire departments. Other efforts to improve information sharing, including support for the Joint Counterterrorism Assessment Team. H.R. 1300/S. 1915, the First Responder Anthrax Preparedness Act, provisions to establish a voluntary anthrax vaccination program for first responders. H.R. 361, the Medical Preparedness Allowable Use Act, provisions to allow FEMA's homeland security grant funds to be used to distribute medical countermeasures to first responders and their families. Issues to ensure the permanence of the DHS Office of Emergency Communications. S. 2976, the DHS Accountability Act, provisions relating to the use of joint task forces. H.R. 3586, the Border and Maritime Coordination Improvement Act, provisions relating to the use of joint task forces.
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7355-7356)
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H7355-7356)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3598.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7355-7357)
Mr. Barletta moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 247.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Homeland Security. H. Rept. 114-324.
Congress.gov source codes: 5000, H12200
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Client expense: $20,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Federal Railroad Administration, General Services Administration (GSA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Natl Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Natl Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT), U.S. Forest Service
2016 · first_quarter · Homeland Security
Issues relating to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including improvements to educational and data programs at the U.S. Fire Administration and National Fire Academy. H.R. 3583, the PREPARE Act, provisions to protect the status of the DHS Office of Emergency Communications, purchase medical countermeasures for first responders, and prevent the implementation of the National Preparedness Grant Program proposal to consolidate the agency's homeland security grants. H.R. 3503, the Department of Homeland Security Support to Fusion Centers Act and H.R. 3598, the Fusion Center Enhancement Act, provisions to improve information sharing with local fire departments. Other efforts to improve information sharing, including support for the Joint Counterterrorism Awareness Team. H.R. 1300/S. 1915, the First Responder Anthrax Preparedness Act, provisions to establish a voluntary anthrax vaccination program for first responders. H.R. 361, the Medical Preparedness Allowable Use Act, provisions to allow FEMA's homeland security grant funds to be used to distribute medical countermeasures to first responders and their families. Issues to ensure the permanence of the DHS Office of Emergency Communications.
Client expense: $20,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Federal Railroad Administration, General Services Administration (GSA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Natl Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Natl Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT), U.S. Forest Service
2015 · fourth_quarter · Homeland Security
Issues relating to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including improvements to educational and data programs at the U.S. Fire Administration and National Fire Academy. H.R. 3583, the PREPARE Act, provisions to protect the status of the DHS Office of Emergency Communications, purchase medical countermeasures for first responders, and prevent the implementation of the National Preparedness Grant Program proposal to consolidate the agency's homeland security grants. H.R. 3503, the Department of Homeland Security Support to Fusion Centers Act and H.R. 3598, the Fusion Center Enhancement Act, provisions to improve information sharing with local fire departments. Other efforts to improve information sharing, including support for the Joint Counterterrorism Awareness Team. H.R. 1300/S. 1915, the First Responder Anthrax Preparedness Act, provisions to establish a voluntary anthrax vaccination program for first responders. H.R. 361, the Medical Preparedness Allowable Use Act, provisions to allow FEMA's homeland security grant funds to be used to distribute medical countermeasures to first responders and their families. H.R. 2795, the First Responder Identification of Emergency Needs in Disaster Situations Act, provisions relating to the needs of first responders and their families during a disaster.
Client expense: $10,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Federal Railroad Administration, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Natl Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT), U.S. Forest Service
2015 · third_quarter · Homeland Security
Issues relating to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including improvements to educational and data programs at the U.S. Fire Administration and National Fire Academy. H.R. 3583, the PREPARE Act, provisions to protect the status of the DHS Office of Emergency Communications, purchase medical countermeasures for first responders, and prevent the implementation of the National Preparedness Grant Program proposal to consolidate the agency's homeland security grants. H.R. 3503, the Department of Homeland Security Support to Fusion Centers Act and H.R. 3598, the Fusion Center Enhancement Act, provisions to improve information sharing with local fire departments. Other efforts to improve information sharing, including support for the Joint Counterterrorism Awareness Team. H.R. 1300/S. 1915, the First Responder Anthrax Preparedness Act, provisions to establish a voluntary anthrax vaccination program for first responders. H.R. 361, the Medical Preparedness Allowable Use Act, provisions to allow FEMA's homeland security grant funds to be used to distribute medical countermeasures to first responders and their families. H.R. 2795, the First Responder Identification of Emergency Needs in Disaster Situations Act, provisions relating to the needs of first responders and their families during a disaster.
Client expense: $10,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Federal Railroad Administration, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Natl Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), Navy, Dept of, Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT), U.S. Forest Service
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
Introduced in House
Congress.gov source codes: 1000, Intro-H
| House |
| Referred to |
| September 24, 2015 |
| September 24, 2015 |